The 42 Dra system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 295.68 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 0.98 solar masses |
Radius | 22.03 solar radiae |
Temperature | 4200 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | -0.46 decimal exponent |
Age | 9.49 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, 42 Dra b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 1233.130 Earth masses |
Density | 3.080 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 13.000 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 1.19 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.38 |
Orbital Period | 479.100 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg |
Discovery Telescope | 2.0 m Alfred Jensch Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Coude Echelle Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2009-06 |
Reference | Doellinger et al. 2009 |